data privacy theme
The question of appropriate balance between the public expectation of privacy on one hand and various social, legal and political issues on the other, are discussed. Is it, for example, acceptable for the government to snoop on innocent people's browsing habits in order to pick up on potential terrorist threats?
5 total · 2 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| futurama6x03 | major | Mom spied on everyone. Bender recorded people without their consent and posted it online, and Fry did the same to Leela. |
| owgm1x14 | major | A point underlined by the narrator was that new technology, i.e. miniaturized microphones, threatened the presumption of privacy in any and all conversations. This was illustrated by Pennington collecting compromising information on Mr. Briggs by hiding a tiny microphone pin in the chair he had used. |
| movie: Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) | minor | The virtual reality entrepreneur Jonathan Walker used his technology to clandestinely look up "all the contributors to fundamental religions over the past five years" and "all hypocritical Democrats making over 300,000 a year". |
| owgm1x05 | minor | In his opening monologue, Orson Welles spoke about modern corporations gathering reams of data on all and sundry. |
| voy7x04 | minor | Harry objected to Tuvok reading his personal letters in the name of security |